Oculus related news and articles

Oculus has announced that this year they will be discontinuing their original Oculus Go VR headset and any three-degrees-of-freedom products.

Developers of Asgard’s Wrath, Sanzaru Games, have been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount.

Facebook has purchased Beat Games, developers of the popular VR game Beat Saber, and brought them into the Oculus family.

John Carmack moved to a new role at Oculus, Consulting Chief Technology Officer. The new role will allow him to focus more time on artificial intelligence.

Facebook is looking for a way to increase the number of triple A franchises and exclusives available for VR devices, hoping to attract more users their Oculus VR headsets in particular.

Oculus have confirmed the release dates for two new VR headsets they are bringing to market, the Oculus Rift S and the Oculus Quest, on May 21, 2019.

The legal battle which has been raging for a number of years now between Facebook and ZeniMax over Oculus VR technology has been settled.

Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey has said that he doesn’t think any current VR hardware, or upcoming VR hardware, is good enough to go mainstream.

Brendan Iribe, Co-founder of Oculus, has announced that he is leaving the company via a post on his Facebook page.

A US District Judge has revised the victory that ZeniMax won against Facebook last year as part of the on-going Oculus legal battle.